Poker News

• PokerNews Op-Ed: Are Deep Stacks Good for Poker Tournaments?

  October 20, 2009,

  Creating tournament structures are my passion and one of the things I have always liked the most about being a tournament director. I have been involved in creating some of the best structures including the World Series of Poker, the Bay 101 WPT...

   

• The Nightly Turbo: Suspected Cheating, Phil Galfond's Slide-in Home, and More

  October 19, 2009,

  The Nightly Turbo is dedicated to bringing you the day's top poker stories. This is the best place to get your daily news fill and get back to your game.

   

• The PokerNews Jet Set: Warsaw

  October 19, 2009,

  Bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic on one side, and Belarus and the Ukraine on the other, Poland in many ways has one foot in the past and the other in the future. The vast majority of Poland’s cultural epicenter, Warsaw, was destroyed in...

   

• The Sunday Briefing: Vivek Rajkumar Victorious

  October 19, 2009,

  It was another exciting Sunday as hundreds of thousands of dollars were on the line in events all across the virtual felt. Vivek Rajkumar claimed the Full Tilt $1 Million Guarantee and, after a two-way chop with "krasark", went away with...

   

• Federally Regulated Online Gaming May Take Years to Materialize

  October 19, 2009,

  It's time for people to lower expectations on when licensed and regulated Internet poker will be available in the United States. It's not going to be this year. It probably won't be next year. But it likely will happen eventually, at the...

   

• World Poker Tour Marrakech: Christophe Savary is Crowned Champion

  October 19, 2009,

  The final 17 players returned to the Casino de Marrakech this afternoon to slug it out for the World Poker Tour Marrakech title, the first ever on the African continent. At the end of a marathon day, Christophe Savary of France emerged victorious...

   

• The Weekly Turbo: High Stakes Poker, Some Kiwi Appreciation, and More

  October 18, 2009,

  The work week can get overwhelming, and not everyone has the time to dive headfirst into the poker world's top stories every day. Weekend warriors rejoice! You've just flopped the nuts because the Nightly Turbo is introducing a special weekly...

   

• PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour Auckland: Simon Watt Keeps the Title In New Zealand

  October 18, 2009,

  The final day of the 2009 PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Auckland Main Event saw the final nine competitors return to the SKYCITY Casino with Simon Watt locking up the title and the $209,085 NZD first-place prize. The day started out rather..

   

• World Poker Tour Marrakech: Ludovic Lacay Leads with 17 Remaining

  October 18, 2009,

  With the field having been cut from 416 down to 151 on Day 1, the remaining players came back to the El Saadi Casino for another ten levels of play at the World Poker Tour Marrakech main event. Some of the big names fell very early on, Annette...

   

• PokerNews Playlist: Volume #12

  October 18, 2009,

  For both serious and casual online poker players, Sundays are (hopefully) a long grind. For those who don't want to play in a meditative state, music can be the perfect middle ground between total silence and the distraction of television. Don't...

   

• World Poker Tour Marrakech: Over 400 Players Take the Felt in Africa

  October 17, 2009,

  The World Poker Tour and ChiliPoker have teamed up to bring major tournament poker to Africa, and the response has been overwhelmingly positive. Day 1 of the WPT Marrakech saw the soft cap of entrants exceeded with 416 runners taking to the felt for...

   

• Bodog Poker Open IV

  October 17, 2009,

  The Bodog Poker Open IV begins November 1 and runs through November 8. Two tournament series will run at the same time: a Contender Series with buy-ins as low as $5, and the Championship Series with buy-ins ranging from $100 to $470 for the...

   

• Pokerstars Asia Pacific Poker Tour Auckland Day 3: The Final Table is Set

  October 17, 2009,

  Day three of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Auckland Main Event kicked off with 32 eager players returning to play down to a final table. Leading the way was Auckland resident Jason Brown who started with 632,000. Behind him were fellow...

   

• $500 Cash Freeroll Series from 888 Poker

  October 17, 2009,

  888 Poker returns with a series of $500 Cash Freerolls exclusive to PokerNews players - all with no points/rake requirements - running until the end of 2009...

   

• The Nightly Turbo: Running it Twice, Charity Poker Tournament, and the Unabomber Wins

  October 16, 2009,

  It sure has been a busy week. Thankfully, it's Friday and since you're reading this, you'll at least have something to talk about at the poker table. Have a good weekend and we'll see you again on Monday.

   

• PokerNews Op-Ed: Anatomy of the Rail

  October 16, 2009,

  The rail is the demarcation line that separates the players from everyone else. The term ‘railbird’ was originally a derogatory nickname for players who just busted or the down-and-out gamblers pathetically hanging out on the rail, like famished...

   

• The Online Railbird Report: The 7-Game Renaissance

  October 16, 2009,

  This week, the high-stakes action on Full Tilt Poker moved away from the regular crowd’s usual haunt at the $500/1,000 pot-limit Omaha tables and onto the $2,000/4,000 7-Game tables. Perhaps in an attempt to exploit some players’ weaknesses at...

   

• Pokerstars Asia Pacific Poker Tour Auckland Day 2: Jason Brown Holds Massive Chip Lead

  October 16, 2009,

  Day 2 of the PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour Auckland Main Event has ground to a halt with only 32 players left, all of them in the money. The day began just after midday New Zealand time with 130 players returning from the two Day-1 flights...

   

• PokerStars $2k Cash Freerolls in November

  October 16, 2009,

  Start collecting your points to gain entry into one or all of the $2,000 Cash Freerolls at PokerStars in November...

   

• The Nightly Turbo: Dream Team Poker Events Announced, Harrah's Expanding, and is Sonic Playing Poker?

  October 15, 2009,

  We know you're all too busy bluffing the fish with seven-deuce to look for the day's top poker news stories of the day, that's why we're here. So we'll get right to it and let you get back to your game.

   

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